SpaceX's Starship. Credit: SpaceX Unless you have been extremely busy, you must have heard of SpaceX's Starship fully assembled test flight. Despite the fact that the test did not go as planned, there are good lessons to take from it. It is important to notice that such an event is still a landmark for humanity,...
Planet Mars illustration . Credit: © revers_jr / stock.adobe.com On Earth, shifting tectonic plates reshuffle the planet's surface and make for a dynamic interior, so the lack of such processes on Mars led several to think of it as a dead planet where not much occurred in the past 3 billion years. In the present problem...
NASA's Orion spacecraft en route for the Moon, with the Earth in the background, in a photo released by NASA in November 2022. Exceeding expectations On the third day after taking off from Florida bound for the Moon, the Orion spacecraft is "surpassing effectiveness expectations," NASA officials stated on Friday. First flight aims to ensure vehicle safety The...
An image from the super computer simulation of the creation of the Moon. Credit: Durham University Researchers from Durham University's Institute for Computational Cosmology used the most precise supercomputer simulations ever, revealing an alternative for how the Moon formed 4.5 billion years ago. It showed that a colossal impact between Earth and a Mars-sized body...
Charged gases escapes from Comet Leonard forming a tail, December 2021. This image took top prize in the 2022 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. Credit: Gerald Rhemann, Royal Museums Greenwich, Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2022 This majestic image is the winner of the Royal Observatory Greenwich's Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest. First place...
The United States is returning to the Moon 60 years after JFK's famous speech. On September 12, 1962, United States president John F Kennedy informed the public of his plan to put one man on the Moon by the decade's end. It was the height of the Cold War, and also America needed a huge victory...
The School of Athens (1509–1511) by Raphael To this day, most of the Western way of thinking stems from the philosophical explorations of three men of Ancient Greece. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. No question you have heard of these philosophers. According to Hannah Fieldings, Award-Winning Romance Novelist, she started to investigate for her latest novel, Aphrodite's Tears, placed...
The process might additionally "solve a serious emergency comparable to the Apollo 13 calamity." A brand-new type of inexpensive real estate has been suggested for future Mars colonists. All the astronauts are required to do is pay in blood. Scientists from the College of Manchester proposed-- we guarantee this is not the story of a 90s...
